Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-11
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. DEATH IN THE FLAMES. Eleven Lives Lost In A
 Theater.
 ROME ASSERTS HER POWER And Drives Dr. McGIynn
 From The Church.
NINE MEN BLOWN TO ATOMS
The Sea Serpent In Lake
 Champlain.
arHEarER IN FLAMES.

Eleven Lives Lost i'm the Blazing Fur.
 Thrilling Scenes During the Fire-The Losses Fully Half a Million Dollars.
 MILWAUKEE, July 10.-A Hurley, Wis, dispatch says: Fire broke out on the stage | of the Alcazar Theater at eight o'clock last night and within an hour the entire business part of the town was in flames while eleven persons had perished in. the theater. The | charred remains of nine people have been taken from the ruins. The loss is fully half million dollars. The Aleazar was variety ! theater, chiefly frequented by miners and { was resort of unsavory repute, associated with the notorious dance houses of the min l ing regions. Only a small audience had gathered when the fire broke out and they scrambled out in hurry. Several of the actors, however, rushed upstairs to save their wardrobes and when they sought to escape found that they were hemmed in, the flames having spread through the wooden building with incredible rapidity. How they struggled to flee will never be known, as none of them except Sadie Wells and Mabel Powers were ever seen again. The former appeared at 8 second story window for time and called piteously for the crowd outside to save her. Before hand could be raised the flames reached her and communi- cated to her clothing. She made frantic effort to jump through the window, then with piercing shriek fell into the furnace below. Mabel Powers had reached third story window She jumped and was go badly injured that her
 
 perished in the theater were Frank Young, Sadie McCabe and - Jackson, colored comedians; lilly Moore, song and dance artiste; Mabel Goodrich and husband, Sadie Wells, Mrs. Fenton and two or three others whose names are not known.
 The Alcazar was in the very heart of the city. It was a mass of flames ill very short time The fire seemed to leap from building to building until several blocks be- came roaring oven. It was not long be- fore every business building between Third and Fifth avenues was in flames All efforts to get the fire under control seemed futile. The fire department reinforced by scores of volunteers sent it's puny streams against the advancing flames, but had to retreat as the fire swept resistlessly on. It did not stop until material for it to feed on was lacking The individual losses are over $500, ,0GO, as follows: Moore, McFarren & Co.,, merchan Co.,, general hardware, O,OOO; Heenmann Bros. & Co. ,dry goods, $25, 900; Cohn & Minn, general merchandise, ,$10, 900; Brill S Langdon same, $3O,OO0; Carruthers Brothers, stock of liquor, $5,OO0; J. B. Lanlois, saloon and household goods, 5000; Oscar Hanson, furnishing goods, s6,O0O; Lemon 6e Foster, drugs, sS,0O0; proprietors of the Fair. $5, ,OO0; John E. Burton, sixteen buildings, $50, 900; Charles LeClair, Alcazar Theater, $25 5,OOO; D. F. McNeill, saloon and house. hold, 10000; P. s. Birdie, liquors, $5,O00; A. E. Gallagher, law library, $5,000; Peeske Brothers, groceries, with building, $11,000; C.. Perrin, restaurant. $5, 900; F. A. Day, hardware, $5,000; J. R. Ridgeman, saloon and restaurant, $5, 900.